Johann Friedrich Ludwig Jordan von Esebeck

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Jordan Freiherr von Esebeck (born March 22, 1741 in Groß Salza , † September 27, 1798 in Zweibrücken ) was a Palatinate-Zweibrücken Minister of State. He came from the baronial line of the noble family Esebeck .

Life

Ludwig was the son of the Palatinate-Zweibrück State and Cabinet Minister Johann Asmus Freiherr von Esebeck and followed his father in office. He himself was Landjägermeister in 1762, in 1769 also a secret conference councilor and senior bailiff in Trarbach , in 1779 conference minister, minister of state, in 1782 real minister of state, in 1792 secret minister of state. From 1793 he was only chief hunter master. With the occupation of the principality by French revolutionary troops in 1793, he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris. After the end of the reign of terror in 1794, he was released. His wife Eleonora Augusta Freiin Gayling von Altheim (1748–1823) was the mistress of the last Prince of Zweibrücken, Charles II August . For a long time they determined court life at the Zweibrücker Hof and at Karlsberg Palace .

literature

• Paul Gurk (pseudonym Franz Grau): Serenissimus , Essen 1940 (novel about Karlsberg Castle; literary appreciation of the Minister von Esebeck and his wife)
• Johann Christian von Mannlich : Histoire de ma vie . Ed .: Karl-Heinz Bender and Hermann Kleber, 2 volumes, Trier 1989–1993. Vol. 1, p. 20 and passim, ISBN 3-87760-700-4
• Kurt Stuck: Administrative staff in the Duchy of Zweibrücken , Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1993, p. 19f.